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Gates "accidentally" letting slip the release date.
Taken from Gamespot.com [URL]http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/06/news_6123821.html[/URL]
"Today, MTV's advance schedule began running a listing for MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed, the special that will see the Xbox 360 shown to the public for the first time. Besides saying how the show will feature "tours of the design labs Interviews with the designers Behind-the-scenes and inside scoop" the listing promises to feature "trailers of the newest games that are due out in November for the new Xbox" (emphasis added).
The listing appears to cement suspicions that the next Xbox will launch on the fourth anniversary of the original Xbox's release in mid-November 2001. However, despite the clear wording of the MTV listing, Microsoft representatives said they could not comment on it for the time being."
Taken from Gamespot.com [URL]http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/06/news_6123821.html[/URL]
"Today, MTV's advance schedule began running a listing for MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed, the special that will see the Xbox 360 shown to the public for the first time. Besides saying how the show will feature "tours of the design labs Interviews with the designers Behind-the-scenes and inside scoop" the listing promises to feature "trailers of the newest games that are due out in November for the new Xbox" (emphasis added).
The listing appears to cement suspicions that the next Xbox will launch on the fourth anniversary of the original Xbox's release in mid-November 2001. However, despite the clear wording of the MTV listing, Microsoft representatives said they could not comment on it for the time being."
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...until a promo intended for empty-headed people.
If all that is true, im liking the sound of Xbox 360...
Only 2 more days to go...
Only 2 more days to go...
Some more info on the Live service and specs:
2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)
Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline
- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *
360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture
Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR
Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus
Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels
2 types of Xbox Live:
Xbox Live Silver (no subscription required)
Xbox Live Gold (subscription benefits)
Features for Gold service
* Also for Silver
# Also for Offline
- Seamless transition to Xbox Live account from Xbox to Xbox 360
- Access to MMOs (additional fees may apply) *
- Free Xbox Live weekends *
- Multiplayer online gameplay
- Avatar for gamer profile * #
- Motto for gamer profile * #
- Personalized look for Xbox System Guide * #
- Offline achievments * #
- Online achievements *
- Access to other players' Gamer cards via Live *
- Cumulative gamer score * #
- Location/language profile * #
- Reputation *
- Enahnced matchmaking using above
- Skill level matchmaking
- Gameplay style profile (casual, competitive, etc.)
- Recent players list *
- Free and premium download game content *
- Free and premium downloadable movies, music, tv *
- Downloadable demos/trailers *
- Microtransactions *
- Custom playlist in every game * #
- Play music from portable devices * #
- View images from digital camera * #
- Strem media from Windows XP * #
- Interactive screen savers * #
- Track info for CDs * #
- Communication with voice, video or text *
360 HW:
1. Support for DVD-video, DVD-Rom, DVD-R/RW, CD-DA, CD-Rom, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 cd, JPEG photo CD
2. All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
3. Customizable face plates to change appearance
4. 3 USB 2.0 ports
5. Support for 4 wireless controllers
6. Detachable 20GB drive
7. Wi-Fi ready
Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU
- 3 symmetrical cores at 3.2 GHz each
- 2 hardware threads per core
- 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core
- 1 MB L2 cache
CPU Game Math Performance
- 9 billion dots per second
Custom ATI Graphics Processor
- 500 MNz
- 10 MB embedded DRAM
- 48-way parallel floating-point shader pipelines
- unified shader architecture
Memory
-512 MB GDDR3 RAM
- 700 MNz DDR
Memory Bandwidth
- 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
- 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
- 21.6 GB/s frontside bus
Audio
- Mulitchannel surround sond output
- Supports 48khz 16-bit audio
- 320 independent decompression channels
- 32 bit processing
- 256+ audio channels
Nice link Mozzy.
I was listening to the sound file they linked to and have found out the following:
In summary:
Perfect Dark Zero has remote turrets (laptop guns) like the earlier one.
Like Counter-Strike?
Respawning near to where the battle's currently at online?
Graphics not quite as detailed as Halo's?
Potential for official and individual 'face plates' for the Xbox 360 console.
Funny thing is I heard an invite sound during the interview, so the interview was conducted over Live, quite funny that MS's Live service was used to leak this info. :)
Texting from your console?
Blah blah celebrity crap blah blah
Girl verbally fellates every famous person there and the MTV staff... Yawn... Woman power! Wooo... Blah blah blah... These people certainly fit the MTV demographic...
Demos: MoH (Battlefield feel to it), some 'medieval' RPG (my guess is Oblivion, but hey it could be Fable 2), Ghost Recon 3 (with new HUD).
And that's that.
I was listening to the sound file they linked to and have found out the following:
In summary:
Perfect Dark Zero has remote turrets (laptop guns) like the earlier one.
Like Counter-Strike?
Respawning near to where the battle's currently at online?
Graphics not quite as detailed as Halo's?
Potential for official and individual 'face plates' for the Xbox 360 console.
Funny thing is I heard an invite sound during the interview, so the interview was conducted over Live, quite funny that MS's Live service was used to leak this info. :)
Texting from your console?
Blah blah celebrity crap blah blah
Girl verbally fellates every famous person there and the MTV staff... Yawn... Woman power! Wooo... Blah blah blah... These people certainly fit the MTV demographic...
Demos: MoH (Battlefield feel to it), some 'medieval' RPG (my guess is Oblivion, but hey it could be Fable 2), Ghost Recon 3 (with new HUD).
And that's that.
PD Zero.
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> If they have anything about Perfect Dark 2 being a launch title then
> I'm as good as sold and I'll place my pre-order as soon as possible.
I think PD2 will probably be a launch title... [URL]http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=35696&subsectionid=1586[/URL]
> If they have anything about Perfect Dark 2 being a launch title then
> I'm as good as sold and I'll place my pre-order as soon as possible.
I think PD2 will probably be a launch title... [URL]http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=35696&subsectionid=1586[/URL]
The best thing about it this time aside from the specs bettering top end PC's is 720p HDTV rumoured to be standard with all games with the majority opting for 1080i. To put it simply, 720p betters what most people have set for their PC monitor resolutions and 1080i is very close to what I have mine set to at the moment.
HDTV games that support even 480p look so much better, 720 and 1080 look amazing, especially GT4.
HDTV games that support even 480p look so much better, 720 and 1080 look amazing, especially GT4.
I hope they don't remake kots of Xbox or PC games and just put '360' next to them.
Do you reckon they'll give us a price this friday? If it looks good and there a few decent games for the launch i'll spend my Birthday Money on pre-ordering it.
Do you reckon they'll give us a price this friday? If it looks good and there a few decent games for the launch i'll spend my Birthday Money on pre-ordering it.
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> The programme's on MTV UK this Friday.
>
> If they have anything about Perfect Dark 2 being a launch title then
> I'm as good as sold and I'll place my pre-order as soon as possible.
I doubt Oblivion will be mentioned. Not exactly a game for the MTV demographic.
> The programme's on MTV UK this Friday.
>
> If they have anything about Perfect Dark 2 being a launch title then
> I'm as good as sold and I'll place my pre-order as soon as possible.
I doubt Oblivion will be mentioned. Not exactly a game for the MTV demographic.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Having defined and set hardware is far more beneficial for a
> developer than having to support multiple types of graphics chips,
> processor architectures and chipsets. You can code far better when
> you don't have to worry about all these things. And when you don't
> have to use Windows.
Honestly can't believe I didn't think about this whilst I wrote out my previous post, you're absolutely correct in saying it. Suppose it's due to my visual background rather than programming. I only have to look to a project that I am currently involved in [URL]http://frag-ops.com[/URL] / [URL]http://pandora-studios.com[/URL] before memories start flooding back. Different computer specifications and set ups really ruin what developers set out to do, we experienced a lot of problems after implementing real time shadows into the ut2k4 engine due to the dramatic effect it had upon peoples frames per second. Specific effects only capable of being used on certain cards are also something which ends up being a problem. Being able to develop a title and have it perform exactly how you intended for every user is indeed something which would make a grin appear on the face of many developers.
The fact that you mentioned Windows also raises another point, everyone who buys the new console will be able to play the game. Not everyone who buys a new PC will be able to play a new release if they're set on using their prefered OS of choice, be it Linux or anything similar - this kind of compatibility isn't even an issue.
> Having defined and set hardware is far more beneficial for a
> developer than having to support multiple types of graphics chips,
> processor architectures and chipsets. You can code far better when
> you don't have to worry about all these things. And when you don't
> have to use Windows.
Honestly can't believe I didn't think about this whilst I wrote out my previous post, you're absolutely correct in saying it. Suppose it's due to my visual background rather than programming. I only have to look to a project that I am currently involved in [URL]http://frag-ops.com[/URL] / [URL]http://pandora-studios.com[/URL] before memories start flooding back. Different computer specifications and set ups really ruin what developers set out to do, we experienced a lot of problems after implementing real time shadows into the ut2k4 engine due to the dramatic effect it had upon peoples frames per second. Specific effects only capable of being used on certain cards are also something which ends up being a problem. Being able to develop a title and have it perform exactly how you intended for every user is indeed something which would make a grin appear on the face of many developers.
The fact that you mentioned Windows also raises another point, everyone who buys the new console will be able to play the game. Not everyone who buys a new PC will be able to play a new release if they're set on using their prefered OS of choice, be it Linux or anything similar - this kind of compatibility isn't even an issue.
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